Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect Harry and Ike didn't know they had anything in common...
...first living things, they say, were probably crude, simple versions of DNA. So why do they expect me to be any different...
...group disbanded in 1926, and officers of the Summer School expect tomorrow's forum to be something of a reunion. Ranson, Warren and Elliott will attend, along with Robert Lowell and William Alfred...
...twice about what he buys. With one in six families reporting some joblessness in the past year, the percentage that said they were financially better off this June than a year ago was down considerably from 32% to 22%. Yet when it comes to the future, a full 30% expect to be better off a year from now v. 28% who felt that way last December. Only 10% think that they will be worse...
...make-and many have more than one in the budget. The great danger, noted the survey, is that further inflation and continuing price rises may discourage future consumer buying. Compared with June 1957, when 42% were fatalistically resigned to a perpetual price spiral, only 28% of U.S. consumers now expect prices of household goods and clothing to keep on going up; the remaining 72% look for mixed movement, no change or a general decline. Thus price becomes an increasingly important factor. Concludes the survey: "Consumer desires and needs for durable goods, homes and additions or repairs to homes are [hardly...